Can you direct us to a white paper enumerating best practices for optimal client-centered Buzzword Bingo methodologies?

We should not overestimate the transformational power of industry buzzwords, nor the new synergies they can help us achieve in emerging vertical markets. What we need is a new paradigm embracing the best practices that will lead us to ever growing profitability.

While you touched on many important paradigms, I think it's crucial to understand that the core of the problem with the buzzword complex is that it overemphasizes the transformative cultural forces present in highly interactive social network ecosystems.

What we truly need is a flexible and authentic approach to telling deep, engaging stories about a performative community culture that focuses not only on iteration but also on building meaningful relationships within our social graphs in order to create an innovative and multifaceted story-based brand, through which we can see past the unnecessary and false dichotomy between sustainable growth and scalable, engaging profit opportunities.

Can you direct us to a white paper enumerating best practices for optimal client-centered Buzzword Bingo methodologies?

We should not overestimate the transformational power of industry buzzwords, nor the new synergies they can help us achieve in emerging vertical markets. What we need is a new paradigm embracing the best practices that will lead us to ever growing profitability.

While you touched on many important paradigms, I think it's crucial to understand that the core of the problem with the buzzword complex is that it overemphasizes the transformative cultural forces present in highly interactive social network ecosystems.

What we truly need is a flexible and authentic approach to telling deep, engaging stories about a performative community culture that focuses not only on iteration but also on building meaningful relationships within our social graphs in order to create an innovative and multifaceted story-based brand, through which we can see past the unnecessary and false dichotomy between sustainable growth and scalable, engaging profit opportunities.

After reading that, I'm not sure who needs a lobotomy more. Me for having read it and triggered a neural apocalypse which will otherwise leave me seizing on the floor in a puddle of my own bodily fluids, or you for being able to produce it so accurately.

While you touched on many important paradigms, I think it's crucial to understand that the core of the problem with the buzzword complex is that it overemphasizes the transformative cultural forces present in highly interactive social network ecosystems.

What we truly need is a flexible and authentic approach to telling deep, engaging stories about a performative community culture that focuses not only on iteration but also on building meaningful relationships within our social graphs in order to create an innovative and multifaceted story-based brand, through which we can see past the unnecessary and false dichotomy between sustainable growth and scalable, engaging profit opportunities.

It has different meanings in different contexts, but when people use it in business it seems to be an attempt to use a philosophy of science meaning of paradigm (inspired by Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shift theory) to make some new idea or theory about marketing, or UI design, or what have you, sound more important and profound than it is.

Instead of saying "it's kind of a pain to design software and translate it to other languages when every button and icon has some text, so let's use icons instead and spare us

I've always wanted to turn meetings with vendors into a drinking game. The second they spout some BS buzzword, we all crack open some tall boys and waterfall. I want to do it just to see the look on their face.

I've always wanted to turn meetings with vendors into a drinking game. The second they spout some BS buzzword, we all crack open some tall boys and waterfall. I want to do it just to see the look on their face.

The problem is that you won't get anyone to vote honestly for any options that involve not answering. All you'll get is "Answer honestly", "Lie about my opinion", "Complain about the lack of options", and "My vote is always for Cowboy Neal".

It depends. Corporations will actually fund research / engineering into topics tangential to their products. For example Intel's paper Designing the Framework of a Parallel Game Engine [intel.com] is about how to design a game engine utilizing multiple cores optimally. But this applies to any multicore CPU, not matter what brand. But because Intel was transitioning from more cycles on one core to more cores at the time, it aided developers to design systems that utilized this approach better. Since AMD was still mostly

Some companies separate their reports into "whitepapers", which include the buzzword-filled marketing stuff aimed at execs, and "technical reports", which include technical details and analysis. In those companies, I would not normally read a whitepaper, since all the good stuff is in the tech reports. However, some companies file them both under "whitepapers", in which case there is often some good stuff buried. Sun used to publish some good technical whitepapers, for example.

Unfortunately most of the jargon doesn't translate to the company, and often that's perfectly okay with the uppermost management, which is why it gets really ridiculous when the CEO (and/or marketing) starts quoting from it, and the engineering staff has no idea what they're talking about. I first encountered this at HP, when Carly Fiorina the Chief Executioner was blowing smoke about her baby "e-speak", which turned out to be mostly smoke and mirrors. She spoke so inspiringly that most people they allowed her to be inspiring without any actual substance. I remember One day I'd had enough of having no idea what the CEO was saying, so I decided as a lowly engineer that I would take her speech and disect it. As I started to study it, I would ask my fellow engineers, management, and their management what the different buzzwords meant. She was basing the whole direction of the company on this stuff... right? So someone should know what it meant. I was flabberghasted to discover that: NO ONE KNEW WHAT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT!? They all smiled or nodded when she'd come to visit, but after the warm fuzzies had faded and we had to go back to making PCs we still didn't really have a clue how it impacted us at all. Little did we know she was laying the ground work for the dismantling of the company... but that's another story for another time... oh and as far as I was able to discover, espeak turned out to be (as far as I could tell) an hp(ish) proprietary type of XML, back around the time xml was still competing to be the standard open source solution and hp thought they could do better.

Someone obviously doesn't have any grasp on reality. People (many/most/some) find violence entertaining when it's ya know... not real. You're free to not be one of those people, but don't act like it's anything new in society or unique to/.

Really? Why is stabbing and option and who thought it even remotely appropriate?

Because the "using an assault weapon" poll option was removed to make the poll more politically correct. If the stabbing option still offends your sensebilities, we can substitute "running through the office yelling stabbity, stabbity and bangity, bangity" (line from an old joke).

But if you want to piece together the truth, you can't depend on finding the "hip professor" who knows everything past, keeps up with everything present, and is willing and able to explain it to you in crystal clear fashion for the price of a restaurant meal.

You've got to sort through a bunch of sources. One nice thing about white papers is that the people writing them understand that if they're written with the density of, say, patents or journal articles, nobody's going to read them. So there are usuall

A white paper is a document a company will write that may detail one of many things. Often (for me), they are put out by vendors detailing information on products, how to use the products, or use cases by companies who have implemented the product. Normally if we write something, it is specific to how we used a product to assist a customer, or sometimes how to configure the product and avoid the standard problems a new user would run into.

It's a long roll of (preferably soft) absorbent paper perforated at regular intervals used for wiping/absorbing bodily fluids/excretions, and occasionally used for corporate ramblings about technical issues/accomplishments/frameworks. Once it's been used it is no longer "white" in most cases.

I made a fair living doing, amongst other things, writing white papers. Those who haven't read one simply haven't experienced the true depth of American literature. I guarantee you an experience unlike any other!

Another Gem from the MBA world. Your product is inferior to almost everything out there so you create a "White Paper" that argues that the other products are made from people's broken dreams. Then as icing on your MBA cake you put out a press release and sucker various publications into quoting your White Paper showing how the average company would save $20 million by using your product and that only fools using 20 year old technology use the competition.

They have their uses. Some whitepapers take some good jabs at their competitors. While you can't take their word, there is often enough to point you in the right direction to being digging on your own, with something to dig for. If you stick at it long enough you can get a good idea of perceived shortcomings of an array of products you are considering. Again, you have to follow up, but sometimes its a starting point.

I've also read other whitepapers that are incredibly useful. Some from SPI Dynamics wri

In Government parlance (at least here in the UK), its part of the law-making process. Government departments publish drafts of upcoming legislation called "green papers" for discussion, rubbishing and so on. the final proposal is called the "white paper". They're so-called because thats the colour of the paper they're printed on. A white paper then grows up to become a Bill and enters the Parlimentary maw in earnest.

I was instructed to write a white paper on the merits of MPEG vs JPEG video encoding for a specific hardware based application by my PHB who had been chief in architecting the new product we were about to go to market with (I had only joined a few weeks previously). Unfortunately for him the sorts of tests that needed to be carried out to compare ourselves to established systems basically meant we could only show MPEG beat out JPEG with that particular application. Our system was JPEG based so the WP myster

If you replace "corporate white paper" with "patent," you can have the same poll options and get similar results. Well, OK, the patent version might get higher results for crying since the BS that gets through the patent office has a direct result on people's livelihoods.